Scottish football fail goes viral after AI camera misses award-winning club's goal

A Scottish football fail has gone viral after the cameras broadcasting the game focused on a goalie's celebrations at the wrong end of the pitch as a goal was scored at the other.

Stenhousemuir won a Digital Transformation Award for the use of AI cameras to stream games to fans. But the technology was to blame for viewers missing the club's fifth goal in their 5-0 win over Stranraer at the weekend.

The main camera broadcasting the League Two clash panned to Stenny goalkeeper Darren Jamieson just as midfielder Adam Brown swept the ball into the net for his second of the game.

The goal was picked up by a second camera in the stadium, which produces less clear footage. But it was the clip of the goal not being shown which was included in the club's official highlight reel on YouTube.

The clip was then shared on Twitter, where it was watched over 90,000 times, leaving viewers in stitches. One said, "Excellent celebration by the goalie", while another added: "Just give them the Puskas award now".

Another posted, "When I was in Brunei I bought a league one match with the auto camera, spent 90 mins watching seagulls flying around and missed all 4 goals".

And another said: "Happened at my lads game a month or so ago was meant to be filming the game but the camera followed a group of boys kicking a ball about behind the pitch".

In 2021, Stenhousemuir was crowned Digitally Transformed Business of the Year, after generating a fortune in revenue through live-stream sales thanks to the technology.

When Covid forced football behind closed doors, the clubs installed the cameras to counteract the loss in revenue from not having fans in the stadium. As well as capturing the action, the system packages the coverage into a live stream for fans to